The Style, Point of View, Form and Structure of Native Son, by Richard Wright

The Style, Point of View, Form and Structure of Native Son, by Richard Wright

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Richard Wright, in his novel, Native Son, favors short, simple,
blunt sentences that help maintain the quick narrative pace of the
novel, at least in the first two books. For example, consider the
following passage: "He licked his lips; he was thirsty. He looked
at his watch; it was ten past eight. He would go to the kitchen
and get a drink of water and then drive the car out of the garage.
" Wright's imagery is often brutal and elemental, as in his frequently
repeated references to fire and snow and Mary's bloody…show more content…

But Wright goes&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
beyond merely presenting social data. At times Native Son seems more&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
like a nightmare than like social science. Note that Wright was also&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
attracted to the horror and detective stories of Edgar Allan Poe.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;One of Wright's stated goals was to make readers "feel" the heat&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
of the Daltons' furnace and the cold of a Chicago winter. But he&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
also makes the cold and heat symbols of the external forces aligned&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
against Bigger and of the powerful emotions raging within him. Other&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;
patterns of imagery that appear throughout the novel include beasts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
(the rat, Bigger as a hunted animal, Bigger portrayed in the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
newspapers as a gorilla); suffocation (the fire being choked out by&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
the accumulated ashes, Bigger's

A Marxist Reading of Native Son
In the Communist Manifesto Karl Marx states clearly that history is a series of class struggles over the means of production. Whoever controls the means of production also controls society and is able to force their set of ideas and beliefs onto the lower class. The present dominant class ideology is, as it has been since the writing of the United States Constitution, the ideology of the upper-class, Anglo-Saxon male. Obviously, when the framers spoke of equality

notes, Burke and Ellison had the closest intellectual and social relationship when Burke was writing A Rhetoric of Motives—and, I would add, when Ellison was writing Invisible Man. Crable points out that the Rhetoric is “the only one of Burke’s books to cite Ellison,” in large part because Ellison’s 1945 essay “Richard Wright’s Blues” (which called Wright’s just-released memoir Black Boy “a nonwhite intellectual’s statement of his relationship to western culture” that illuminates a “conflicting pattern

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